4th MP Regional camp 2008 - Report

Anu Abraham

The 4th ICPF regional camp was held on 27th to 30th October at AICUF Ashram Bhopal. Our theme was “Stay tuned with God.”

The meeting started with prayer on 27th at 6 PM and camp was inaugurated by Rev. Dr. Mathew Verghese with a short message based on Phil:1:9-10 and Prayer.

The first session was led by Anu Abraham, ICPF Bhopal Staff. The worship was led by ANGELOS (Delhi) team and following session was taken by our guest speaker Br. Baiju Thevatheril, Promotional Secretary, ICPF USA. The quiet time was led by Br. Philip Cherian in which he taught about “the need of quiet time and how to do quite time.”

Every morning from 28th to 30th there was light physical training and games for 15 minutes. To make is easy to run the camp, we divided the students into 6 groups -- Sinai, Meezar, Hermon, Moria, Horeb, Hebron -- and every group had their own colour badges for identification. Points were awarded to the groups for every activity - positive and negative. The group leaders were very active and helped a lot to maintain the camp discipline.

Pr. Geo Varghese and Br. Philip Cherian handled 3 sessions each and 1 session was taken by Br. Baiju. The topics for the sessions were

1. Discipleship
2. Identifying with Christ
3. Teenage problems
4. Excellence in studies
5. Relationship with God
6. Temptations, and
7. Spiritual Empowering.

The quiet time sessions were led by Pr. Benji, Pr. Geo Varghese and Br. Baiju. And one student from each group shared for 5 minutes. Br. Shibu Thomas shared his testimony. In the evening time we had shown some mission challenging movies for 30 minutes, and also conducted some games. After every teaching session, their was a quiz program (of 5 questions) based on the session.

The best camper award was won by Gibi George, and every student got gift for their good performance.

Result of the camp: 50 students accepted Jesus as their personal savior and 33 students experienced the touch of the Holy Spirit. There were 33 decision for baptism and 18 for full time ministry.

The day and night prayer, co-operation and hardworking of our CGPF members are the victory of this camp. All glory and honour to the matchless name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Camp statistics:

• Total registered students – 127
• Total students attended – above 150
• Total Income – 1,10,000 Indian Rupees
• Total Expenditure – 1,50,000 Indian Rupees

Please pray for all our needs and for the future ministry.

Camp pictures are available at http://icpfbhopal.webs.com/apps/photos/album.jsp?albumID=3150581.

Anu Abraham is the ICPF Staff, Bhopal